The level of MPRIS compliance varies wildly between these different players,
but mpris-remote tries to work around that as much as possible. Some players
don't report status information, some don't support metadata, etc.

Code is at github. It's a
Python script and doesn't require any building or installation. Just put it
somewhere in your PATH. It does depend on the Python D-BUS module.

git clone git://github.com/mackstann/mpris-remote.git

The usage text is hopefully pretty self-explanatory. Use -h or
--help to read it.